Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:56:22
Message-Id: 201002120851.46110.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? by Graham Murray
1 On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Graham Murray wrote:
2 > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> writes:
3 > > so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser
4 > > or mail app that they are offline?
5 >
6 > Why does the app need to know?
7
8 others already posted examples why this is needed.
9
10 Also - why should I manually select something, when the system can do it for
11 me?
12
13 Do you install your files by hand or do you let portage do the job?